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By Professor Doom      With all the Progressive silliness on campus today, it�s easy to miss a big underlying cause: a broken accreditation system.      For newcomers, a quick primer on accreditation:       Scholars came together to share information, and these gatherings turned into universities, with a mission of education: either humanity (by researching new knowledge) or of humans (by the teaching of that knowledge). As these institutions became formalized, scholars met with other institutions to learn from each other on how best to run a university. These meetings became established in the US in the 19 th century, a time when travel and communication weren�t nearly so trivial as today; it�s why we have regional accreditation , despite the fact that this is an outdated monopoly system (if �Bob�s SKool of Degree Grantin� � opened up across the street from Harvard, it would be every bit as legitimate as Harvard, since bo...

By Professor Doom      Despite the legions of administrators thought policing our campuses, our universities still seem to put out endless amounts of insanity. I�ve covered the whole � Milk is racist � madness before, but today I�ll highlight two more. First up, trying to teach the sort of behavior that might lead to a means of paying off student loans is, apparently, racist: Public University�s �Diversity Training�: Expecting People To Show Up On Time Is Racist     I don�t want to come across as a whiner, as I chose this line of work, but the gentle reader really should get down on his knees and be grateful to never have been subjected to a Diversity Training workshop. YE GODS are these things abominations, utterly insulting the intelligence of everyone involved. �You should teach pedophiles, murderers, criminals, and black people all the same way.� --one of many useful pieces of information given to me at a diversity training workshop�I just can�t em...

By Professor Doom      Yes, the old sage ranting �it�s all crap� or �we have lost our way� is a bit of a clich�, but I honestly have more than just my own experience and opinions�I have evidence.       Maybe it�s just a matter of opinion when I say standards have fallen�perhaps my memory (and my old tests) paint an incorrect picture of the reality of higher education decades ago. Perhaps riots against free speech have always been common on campus, and I just don�t remember them. Perhaps the minimal pay for the teachers and incredible pay for the administrators has always been how it worked and I just never noticed.       But, gentle reader, I promise you, the campus restrooms I went to in the past did not have tampons in them. I go to men�s bathrooms exclusively�and I really think I would have noticed if such things were there.       Today, men�s rooms on campuses have tampons in them. I�m ser...

A new article soon, but much of what happened in higher education is due to the debasement of the accreditation rules. And, so a review of the what we used to have is in order. A new post is soon, i promise. By Professor Doom      I was checking some sources while I was following the money in higher education in my last essay, and came upon a few tidbits worth sharing.      Most awesome was an article that  listed requirements for accreditation  over 100 years ago. Much as it�s fascinating to see tests from the 19 th  and early 20 th  century to see how much schools have changed, I find this list of accreditation requirements from North Central accrediting (there are numerous accrediting bodies, but they are all fairly similar) to be amazing: 1. follow respectable entrance requirements 2. offer courses selected from the classics 3. ensure a minimum of eight departments headed by full-time instructors, each possessing ...

By Professor Doom      Last time around I covered the school paper�s version of events surrounding the suicide of a student after he got caught up in the school�s kangaroo court system. Bottom line, however, the school paper is just administrative propaganda�they�re entitled to their point of view, though I do wish they were more honest about it. I mean, when The Ice Cream Council says their studies say the ideal human weight is 400 lbs, they state their bias in their name�but the school paper doesn�t give the reader any such fair warning.      So, now let�s consider the rest of the story, from a source that probably doesn�t have anything personal against the administration of UT Arlington.       First, we have the summary of the case and ruling : Klocke, a straight male, was accused by a gay male student of writing anti-gay slurs on his computer during a class. Klocke vehemently denied the accusation, and administrators w...